One of my themes is (and it’s one reason I wrote the books as fantasies) there is good, there is evil, there is right, there is wrong—lit does exist. If you do that in a mainstream novel you are accused of being judgmental unless you’ve chosen the right political viewpoint.
Maybe it’s not always easy to tell which is the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. ‘Good and evil—but relative to what?’ This deconstructionism irritates the devil out of me. Situational ethics began as a way of making fine moral choices, but it’s become this monster in so many people’s minds: it now means there is no right, there is no wrong. ‘Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.’ That really doesn’t work unless you intend to carry a gun all the time.
What I believe goes into my stories. I’m not trying to preach. I believe these things, but I’m trying to tell stories. All my characters of course believe things I don’t believe.
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